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The Beyoğlu (Istanbul) Public Chief Prosecution opened a trial against Riot Forces Police officer Tuncay Aktaş because he beat journalist Ozan Özhan. Özhan was beaten by Aktaş when he read a sign board on the wall of the former water depot reading "The Energy of 2010 spreads all over Istanbul" on Istanbul's

centrally located Taksim Square. The journalist applied to the Beyoğlu Chief Prosecution putting forward that a police officer started a quarrel and beat him on 9 January 2010 when he paused on his way to read a sign board posted on the square. He identified the involved policeman in the scope of the related

investigation. Özhan filed his complaint on 10 January. A case was opened against the police officer on charges of "actual bodily harm". Defendant Aktaş was appointed to a different province after the incident. He did not attend the second hearing of the case on 15 December. The court decided to confirm the

defendant's new address and acquire footage of several MOBESE cameras (cameras in public). The trial was adjourned to 2 June.

Emrullah Özbey, owner of the News 49 ('Haber 49') newspaper published in Muş (south-eastern

Turkey), is facing prison terms of two years before the Muş 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance. He is tried on the grounds of having criticized a punishment regarding a news item about an examination for

handicapped people that had been allegedly cancelled with a forged signature. The journalist was previously sentenced to a compensation fine because of the article on subject entitled "Signature Scandal" published on 17 January 2005. Meanwhile, journalist Özbey filed a TL 5,000 (€ 2,500)

compensation claim against three relatives of Medini Yılmaz, AKP MP at the time Özbey was convicted, at the Muş 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance because of alleged kidnapping and threatening. The case will start before the Muş Magistrate Criminal Court on 10 March.

Journalist Emin Bal applied to the Şırnak Beytüşşebap Public Prosecution because he was allegedly threatened by village guard Azat Kılıç. Bal apparently presented voice records and visuals. His complaint was dismissed.

Taraf daily newspaper journalist Mehmet Baransu announced that his phone has been wiretapped for more than a year by the Gendarmerie General Command Intelligence Presidency and the Gendarmerie Regiment Command of Van in the pre-dominantly Kurdish region in the south-east of Turkey. Baransu applied to court. The corresponding trial will be opened in Van on 21 February. Baransu had put forward that the Gendarmerie hid his name and phone number from the court. "They showed the judge on duty the IMEI number of the phone I was using and said they were going to eavesdrop on the IMEI number of a person called Şükrü Özkan, code name "Serdar", in the scope of the struggle against the PKK/Kongra-Gel terror organization", Baransu had claimed.

The trial related to the attack of journalist Hacı Boğatekin, owner of the local Gerger Fırat newspaper published in Adıyaman, was continued on 8 December. Boğatekin was allegedly attacked by municipality employees in 2009 when he was trying to take footage of a fire at a municipality waste dump in the area of the Forestry Directory. Mayor Arif Karatekin and his brother İlhan Karatekin stand trial before the Gerger Criminal Court of First Instance. The court decided to investigate whether the fire was the reason for a trial between the directorate and the municipality and whether the District Governorship initiated any

procedures related to Karatekin.

Seven police officers and civilian Ferhat Gerçek stand trial at the Bakırköy (Istanbul) 9th High Criminal Court related to shooting Gerçek on 7 September 2007 in Yenibosna when he was selling copies of the Yürüyüş magazine. Gerçek had been critically injured and is bound to a wheelchair since the attack. Gerçek and the police officers stand accused of "opposing the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations", "resistance to obstruct duty", insult of public officials" and "intentionally harming property" before the Bakırköy (Istanbul) 9th High Criminal Court. At the hearing on 24 December, the court decided to determine Gerçek's age, saying that "the case file was not investigated sufficiently". The trial was postponed to 6 May 2011. Gerçek was 17 years old at the time of the incident. The indictment calls for prison sentences of 10.5 years each for defendants police officers Cengiz Çalış, Yavuz Özer, Aydın Özdere, Hasan Bayraktar, Emre Taşkın, Can Koçbülbül and Muzaffer Ünal. In the same case, Gerçek is facing imprisonment of up to 15 years.

In the course of an amendment of the Criminal Procedure Law (CMK) enforced on 25 July, appeals against the "postponement of the pronouncement of judgement" in press trials can be filed until 9 August 2010. According to the Turkish Journalists' Society (TGC), the rule of postponing the pronouncement of judgements in case of crimes that carry imprisonment of up to two years will now only apply with the condition that the defendant accepts the postponement. The TGC argued that the "postponement of the pronouncement of the judgement" amounts to supervising freedom of expression, and that the journalists' right to say "I am innocent" is taken away. The TGC was successful in having the article amended. This article will now only be applied in the case of the defendant's consent.

The Ankara 8th Criminal Court of First Instance handed down a TL 7,500 (€ 3,750) monetary fine to Akif Beki, former spokesman of the Prime Ministry. The compensation is to be paid to Hürriyet newspaper reporter Hasan Tüfekçi. Beki was found guilty of identifying Tüfekçi as a target on the grounds of the article entitled "Security is left to God during the breaking of the fast". One year after the article had made the headlines, the Prime Ministry Press Centre annulled Tüfekçi's accreditation. Beki on the other hand had issued a writing to explain the procedures and principles for the accreditation. He had given the article as an example and announced that "the photographs were unreal, the news was made up and a lie and

created at the desk". Thereupon, Tüfekçi filed a compensation claim against Beki because of "insult". The decision will be finalized if Beki does not file an appeal.

The General Staff Military Prosecution launched a judiciary investigation over allegations related to illegal wiretapping ordered by General Aslan Güner, Deputy Chief of General Staff. An administrative

investigation had already been initiated by the General Staff on 30 August right after the news about the issue made the headlines of the nation-wide Taraf newspaper. Güner allegedly purchased wiretapping equipment to eavesdrop on "members of the PKK", the militant Kurdistan Workers Party. Prof. Baskın Oran from the Ankara University Faculty of Political Science was among the approximately 2000 people who were wiretapped. Oran filed a criminal complaint on 1 September. Oran's lawyer Oya Aydın requested the punishment of all people responsible according to Article 257 of the Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) on "misconduct in office", Article 134 on "violation of privacy" and Article 132 on "violation of the confidentiality of communication", respectively.

The Steering Board Member of the Çukurova Journalists Association (ÇGC), Özcan Aladağ, writer for the local Kent newspaper, was attacked by two unidentified young people on 9 August. He filed a complaint against both attackers and obtained a medical report from the Forensic Medicine Institute documenting the beating. The Çukurova Journalists Association demanded to arrest the attackers as soon as possible. The TGS Adana Branch and the Anatolian Sports Journalists Associaiton (ASGD) condemned the attack as well. DİHA reporter Ömer Çelik was assaulted in the Istanbul district of Şişli by a group of attackers who called themselves üklücü ('idealists') in reference to the "Grey Wolves", an ultra-nationalist and neo fascist youth organization of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). An investigation was launched only after two weeks when Çelik had been attacked for the second time. Nobody was taken into custody in the scope of the first attack, even though footage of the incident was presented to the prosecution. After the second assault, the MHP Şişli District Mayor was taken into custody and released again. Çelik was called to the prosecution to give his statement in the end of August. No trial has been opened against the perpetrators yet. Çelik, student at the Faculty of Communications, was severely injured in the first attack. He underwent medical treatment in the brain surgeon ward and the orthopaedic ward of the Etfal Hospital. Çelik has got two cracks in his skull and his left arm is broken in three places below the elbow.

Journalist Durmuş Tuna, owner of the local Söke Gerçek newspaper published in Aydın (south-western Turkey), was assaulted on 26 July 2009. The 2nd Magistrate Criminal Court handed down different prison sentences to four of the twelve suspects. The decision is pending before the Court of Appeals.

The trial regarding the attack on journalist Diya Yarayan who was severely injured is still pending at the Siirt High Criminal Court. Defendants Feyzi Aldemir, Hamit Kurt, Feyaz Aldemir and Tahir Aldemir were arrested and released after about ten months in detention. Yarayan, owner of the Birlik newspaper

published in Siirt (south-eastern Anatolia), was severely injured when he was attacked in front of his home in the Bahçelievler District on 17 February 2009.

Dilek Karakoyun, official of the Tunceli Emek newspaper, was threatend by e-mails sent by Süleyman Çakmak, Manager of the Provincial Public Education Board. Karakoyun criticized that legal procedures went very slow as far as Çakmak is concerned but were significantly accelerated regarding an investigation to be launched against Karakoyun, columnist Helin Karakoyun and Mustafa Elveren. It was previously

reported that the local newspaper had received the e-mails sent under the alias of "striking cobra" ('vurucu kobra') after publishing the article entitled "Public education and a strange education" written by

Karakoyun. On the day of the publication of the article on 6 August 2009, the newspaper received an e-mail later on identified to have been sent by Çakmak. It read, "(...) You are the real fascists! You are racists. (...) I feel sorry for you! (...)".

The investigation into threats voiced by alleged member of the clandestine and illegal gendarmerie

intelligence unit JİTEM, Orhan Tekin, launched upon a complaint filed by Sıddık Güler and Erdoğan Altan, DİHA reporters of the region of Van, was dropped in January by the Van Public Chief Prosecution. The lawyer of Güler and Altan, Murat Timur, filed an appeal against the decision that was reasoned with a "lack of concrete evidence".